At 9:31 PM -0400 10/17/99, Stan Ryckman wrote:
> At 09:15 PM 10/16/99 -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> But you are saying that we are in the backwater because we don't
> want to use the color TV remote control to turn off the car radio.
um, only if you're claiming the world wide web is a remote control in
your eyes.
I doubt most people would agree with you. It's not a case of the car
radio and TV remove, but the car radio and the TV.
> Radio and TV are different mediums, just like the web and email are
> different mediums.
Oh, but they aren't. web and email are both transmission disciplines
of a single information stream.
> Since you're so convinced that email is "the old days" and shouldn't
> get in the way of moving technology forward, which you equate to
> using the web, then I would expect you to convert your email lists--
> you don't want to hang back,
Nope. You made a basic bad assumption. Email isn't "the old days".
Email-ONLY is.
> after all--and just run lists on the
> web for people to post to and read there. Those do exist, you know.
I use those, too, where they're appropriate.
> Or perhaps I should take the radio out of my car and install
> a color TV?
people are doing that, too. I know someone who plays his nintendo on
the way to work in traffic stoppages.
Just because email came first doesn't mean it needs to be kept
separate. You use technologies for what they're good at, not what
they're traditionally used for.
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Chuq Von Rospach - Plaidworks Consulting (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
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French horns...
